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Jane Austen:


Source #1 : http://www.janeausten.org/rank-and-class.asp (JaneAusten.org)


Time Period of her works -


  • English society revolved around a social hierarchy
  • Royalty
  1. King
  2. Queen
  3. Prince
  4. Princess

  • Nobility:
  1. Duke
  2. Marquis
  3. Earl
  4. Viscount
  5. Baron

  • Commoners:
  1. Baronet
  2. Knight
  3. Landed Gentry (Land-Owners)

  • To distinguish between a noble-lady and a non-noble-lady, the first name of a noblewoman was used with her title.


Source #2 : http://janeaustenlit.tripod.com/id10.html


  • Was a time of war
  • Called the, " Regency"
  • Women told people what to do and how to do it
  • They were very much in charge
  • Their work was sometimes a lot, and very hard to do
  • Social parties and balls were held often
  • Dancing was a favorite past time for many upper-class women and men
  • Unmarried women spent a great deal of time with other unmarried women
  • Austen's characters tended to be from her own order, middle class
  • She introduced few aristocrats in her novels
  • Austen emphasizes reality


Source #3: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jausten.htm


  • In all of her novels her heroine are ultimately married
  • She focused on middle-class provincial life, with humor and understanding


Source #4: http://www.fashion-era.com/regency_taste.htm


  • Her characters are not very rich, but have a comfortable home life and wealthy enough to live without interruptions
  • Her characters spend their time reading, writing letters, walking, riding, dancing, playing cards, listening to music, and enjoying conversation
  • Talk about acceptable manors and unacceptable behavior
  • Over all though, their conversations focused on love and marriage

Source #5: http://www.beaubrummell.com/regency.html


  • The Regency period era was that narrow period after the Georgian time
  • 1790-1820
  • Regency means current ruler
  • A regency gentleman normally did not work any occupation
  • Instead they gambled on cards and horses
  • A gentleman attended parties, balls, musical evenings, the theater, the opera and country house parties
  • The importance of the social whirl cannot be underestimated

Source #6: http://www.oregonregencysociety.com/description.htm


  • Regency period is known for its elegant style
  • Regency social manners were all politeness and gentility
  • protocol for every social interaction
  • The social hierarchy was the core of everything
  • Women largely did not inherit wealth
  • Marriage was one of the few options to give her a secure future
  • A marriage based on love was barely ever an option for a regency woman
  • Income was the first consideration
  • Napoleonic wars raged during this time
  • War of 1812

Source #7: http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~awoodley/regency/legalwomen.html


  • All property within marriage legally belonged to the husband
  • Husband and wife were one person by law
  • The legal existence of the wife was suspended and incorporated into the personality of her husband
  • A husband could though, leave his property in his will to the wife
  • The wife could not acquire the land until the husband had passed away, if he left it in his will

Source #8: http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/social-classes-in-england-1814/

Classes:


  • Highest orders : 2,880 family members
  • Second class : 234,305 family members
  • Third class : 112,200 family members
  • Fourth class : 1,168,250 family members
  • Fifth class : 2,798,475 family members
  • Sixth class : 8,792,800 family members
  • Seventh class : 16,165,803 family members
  • Army : 69,000 family members
  • Navy : 862,000 family members


  • Highest orders : royal family, lords, spiritual and temporal, great officers of state, peers above the degree of a baronet
  • Second class : baronets, knights, country gentleman, others with large incomes
  • Third class : clergy, doctors, merchants and manufacturers on a large scale, bankers
  • Fourth class : lesser clergy, doctors, lawyers, teachers ship owners, merchants and manufacturers of the second class, shopkeepers, artists, builders, mechanics, persons of moderate incomes
  • Fifth class : lesser freeholders, shopkeepers, innkeepers, publicans, persons in miscellaneous occupations
  • Sixth class : working mechanics, artists, craftsman, agricultural laborers
  • Seventh class : paupers, vagrants, gypsies, idle persons supported by criminal activity
  • Army/Navy : officers, including half pay non commissioned officers, soldiers, seamen, marines, pensioners

Source #9: http://www.janeausten.org/

Her works-


  • Sense & Sensibility (1811)
  • Pride & Prejudice (1813)
  • Mansfield Park (1814)
  • Emma (1815)
  • Persuasion (1817)
  • Northanger Abby (1817)
  • (2 later novels after death)

  • She never married (uncommon for women in her time period)
  • No kids
  • Each book highly regarded for their clear message and colorful cast of characters
  • her actual life and interactions benefited her writing
  • remains one of the most well-known and liked authors

Authors like her-

  • Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Wilkie Collins
  • Anthony Trollope
  • Charles Dickens
  • Maria Edgeworth
  • Frances Burney


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